1 Chronicles 17:9

I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them there, so that they may live in their own place and be troubled no more. No longer will wicked people oppress them, as they did before,

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Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,

In Context

8I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are on the earth.

10as they were doing from the days that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Then I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that I, Yahweh, will build you a house.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:13The Egyptians made the Israelites work rigorously.

Psalms 44:2You drove out the nations with your hand, 1 but you planted our people; 1 you afflicted the peoples, 1 but you spread our people out in the land. 1

Psalms 92:13They are planted in the house of Yahweh; 1 they flourish in the courts of our God. 1

Isaiah 60:18Violence will no longer be heard in your land, or devastation nor shattering within your borders; 1 but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. 1

Jeremiah 24:6I will set my eyes on them for good and restore them to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down. I will plant them, and not uproot them.

Jeremiah 32:41Then I will rejoice in doing good to them. I will faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and all my life.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 17:2-16

God's Promise to David. ( b. c. 1042.) 1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remaineth under curtains. 2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee. 3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord , Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in: 5 For I have not dwelt in… Read the whole commentary →

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